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New court documents call further into question the actions of Justice Department officials in their prosecution of former Alabama governor Don Siegelman on corruption charges, Time reports. With the Democrat’s appeal scheduled for next month, the House Judiciary Committee disclosed violations by the Bush-appointed US Attorney, Leura Canary, who publicly recused herself from the case but continued to privately advise prosecutors.

Canary recused herself in 2002 because of her husband’s ties to Siegelman’s gubernatorial rival and GOP operative Karl Rove, but mails from a DOJ whistleblower show her managing the Siegelman prosecution from afar. “A recused United States Attorney should not be providing factual information to the team working on the case under recusal,” House Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers wrote last week.

I read about this years ago. Why is it that it coming to light now ? Good now lets not slap the people who did this on the wrist. They knew they were wrong back when they did it. This is the beginning of quite a few people who should be in jail . Hope fully they will find out the true meaning of tough loving !